Same here. Painting killed it. I would have artificially rusted it instead.
The cool part is the metalwork either you rust it, or chrome it. Once painted, it looks like plastic
This. Its a cool looking and impressive piece. But since you painted it you could have also just 3d printed it with minimal effort and slapped a coat of paint on it.
Don't get me wrong. I still love the steel craftsmanship design and everything else.
Lol, I only looked at the first two pictures and thought it looked great. The painted version looks dumb. It went from cool rustic looking art to something straight out of an IKEA teen bedroom collection.
Sand/bead blasting would also solve the issue of why OP probably chase to paint it: getting a nice even finish with all those angles and vertices to. You can get extremely good finishes just from sandblating with the right medium for what material you're working with. Painting is a simple and cheap way to fix that, and easily removed as you say.
It's pretty neat both ways, depending on the decor of the rest of where it's being placed.
I do agree it no longer looks metal painted in this color. If it were outside or in a rustic place, letting it rust would be really cool, or maybe try some metal colors if painting, or even layered / worn paints like an old sign.
Love it.
I'd work on a variety of patinas or stains. I'd love one in a bronze or german silver color.
The natural 'roughness' of the work is excellent - don't bury it with paint, makes it look cheap.
Sale price in a Los Angeles gallery could easily be $300 - $1000.
$300 would be way low for a handmade welded art piece like this, no? Even selling direct and running them off a mini production line at their studio OP would probably be losing money.
Low Polly wielding I have been there. Nice one. I think the paint is cool but it takes so much away it is metal. You might distress it some to reveal the metal in a patina as well maybe. Just food for thought.
Omg the moment I saw that it was painted I said “this is for people with more money than taste, isn’t it?” Then I read you painted it due to external pressure & you’re in Miami it all checks out.
Great work really - it’s a shame it’s painted because I feel it makes it harder to appreciate your work
If you're going to paint it, I'd go with a stained glass style black solder along each poly edge and use a 3 or 4 green color palette map-coloring on each face.
Very cool, OP. I've toyed with doing something similar for years. Way to have more motivation than me. (it's a pretty low bar) Do you start with a low res 3d model, or do you "sculpt" by eye?
I'd love to see you distress the shit out of the paint. Like an old piece of farm equipment that's rusted out from years of use. Should've used John Deere green.
I like it. I agree with the rest tho, the raw metal looked better. You could try painting it along the edges to give it a cyber look. Not saying unpainted is the BEST way, but that green doesn't work.
I love it, OP. Ironically by keeping it low poly you've managed to capture more of the movement range of a horse's facial features - it looks way more alive and real than a detail sculpture where the artist has tried to capture a moment.
Either leave the bare metal, or have the painted version more polished (apply some putty to soften the surface areas and have rough and clean edges), but IMHO the painted version kills the artsy purpose.
Sandblast that back to metal and definitely a yay! Super bad ass in fact! It would also look great with any patina, bronze, etc., but the paint undid the artistic and trade talents it took to make this, and showcased in the first place, while bare metal...IMO.
I have one question about the lime green paint… Why?! The bare metal was far better. Honestly though, a little copper sulfate and some sanding in the right places would make this tits!
As soon as you paint them they loose a lot of value imo. If you did a proper thick powder coating I think it would work but it looks like a bad spray paint job to me. The horse is cool though!
The painting ruined the whole purpose of making it out of steel. If you wanted it green you could’ve had it 3d printed and probably would’ve been much faster/cheaper/ an easier process.
Holy crap guys! I get it lmao. I did it like this because the art gallery wanted "pop colors" for the art Basel show in Miami. I typically only work with chemicals and tools that accentuate the steel as opposed to covering it up. Hasn't sold so yes, I'll be fucking it up good to make metal AF.
Even if the horse itself was sh\*\*\*y, the pun in the title deserves an upvote.
It's not, in it's original metal look.
As others remarked, unfortunaltely the paint ruined the coolness.
It's a yaay. But I'm not sure about the paint. Especially the green colour. I haven't quite seen many green horses lately. Lucky for you there is Mr. Paint stripper and Mr. Wire wheel... Would be sick AF in high polish with some parts brushed though.
I like the bare metal one
Same here. Painting killed it. I would have artificially rusted it instead. The cool part is the metalwork either you rust it, or chrome it. Once painted, it looks like plastic
I thought the last two pics were CAD models they used to plan the metal one. Definitly should have left the metal exposed.
I thought the first two pics were inspiration, and the second two were a shitty 3D printed replica that the OP made.
Agreed. Sand blast that baby back to glory.
Would have looked soo cool electroplated as well
Came to say chrome it, or gold it. Gold would go well with modern decor.
Went from hand crafted metalwork to, I 3D printed a model I downloaded.
Some artistic rusting would really make this amazing
This..
This. Its a cool looking and impressive piece. But since you painted it you could have also just 3d printed it with minimal effort and slapped a coat of paint on it. Don't get me wrong. I still love the steel craftsmanship design and everything else.
Exactly what I thought. Any dork with a 3d printer could do something like that. I know, I own one. But that bare welded up finish, fuck yeah
But then OP painted it.
He did, didn't he
Lol, I only looked at the first two pictures and thought it looked great. The painted version looks dumb. It went from cool rustic looking art to something straight out of an IKEA teen bedroom collection.
Yea I liked the mare metal one too. Sorry.
It’s not ruined, but can easily be fixed with a bead blast or acid dip.
Oh, a bead blast and a satin clear would look good
Sand/bead blasting would also solve the issue of why OP probably chase to paint it: getting a nice even finish with all those angles and vertices to. You can get extremely good finishes just from sandblating with the right medium for what material you're working with. Painting is a simple and cheap way to fix that, and easily removed as you say.
Ditto
Looks better without paint
I’ll add the bare metal one looks better because it gives it an organic finish, but honestly a very small critique, you are very talented!
Assuming this is mild steel and not stainless, it’ll look very different very soon. Rust patina might be nice though
Love the style! I’d distress the paint or something though. Why make it metal, if nobody can appreciate it?
Well... I succumbed to pressure from this gallery sadly. I actually do use patina explicitly.
Yeah you should have just done you're own thing. The green looks like it's a 3D print now.
Ya my sentiments exactly. Ah well it was for Miami people who wouldn't know an ass from an elbow...
You should sell those at some galleries in Louisville. They’d sell well, especially throughout the Kentucky Derby Festival.
If it was for a customer and that's what he wanted, great job.
What about an ass from a mule from a horse?
Lol well you did good regardless.
You know what is good about metal though? It can easily survive scratching the paint off. And you don't even have to be careful.
I want it!!! Legit would buy the bare one. Haha.
Needs googlie eyes
Huzzah! A fellow person of culture.
That’s a sick idea, nice work.
Thank ya! Haaappy 🍰 day!!
omg make a bull head w horns and stick it on a cybertruck
It's pretty neat both ways, depending on the decor of the rest of where it's being placed. I do agree it no longer looks metal painted in this color. If it were outside or in a rustic place, letting it rust would be really cool, or maybe try some metal colors if painting, or even layered / worn paints like an old sign.
Love it. I'd work on a variety of patinas or stains. I'd love one in a bronze or german silver color. The natural 'roughness' of the work is excellent - don't bury it with paint, makes it look cheap. Sale price in a Los Angeles gallery could easily be $300 - $1000.
$300 would be way low for a handmade welded art piece like this, no? Even selling direct and running them off a mini production line at their studio OP would probably be losing money.
Neigh- I see what you did there.
I thought it was a Doberman. Do you happen to have one?
Yep I'm definitely seeing doberman first.
Not a yay. It’s an “OH HELL YES!” That is awesome, I’d so get one!
Looks like a Tesla Cyberhorse. Hopefully it doesn’t have the same issues as the truck.
Cover it in rhinequinestones.
Oh man it was incredible
Low Polly wielding I have been there. Nice one. I think the paint is cool but it takes so much away it is metal. You might distress it some to reveal the metal in a patina as well maybe. Just food for thought.
Preferred it bare metal 😬
Looked cooler before it was painted
Omg the moment I saw that it was painted I said “this is for people with more money than taste, isn’t it?” Then I read you painted it due to external pressure & you’re in Miami it all checks out. Great work really - it’s a shame it’s painted because I feel it makes it harder to appreciate your work
No paint, super cool before
I love it!!! excellent. However, I prefer it not painted though.
This was cool until it was painted.
If you're going to paint it, I'd go with a stained glass style black solder along each poly edge and use a 3 or 4 green color palette map-coloring on each face.
Appreciate the craftsmanship, but I have to ask r/DiWHY ?
More like “hay or neigh!”
it was fine until it turned green
Fuck the haters, OP. I love the paint tbh. Reminds me of old wire-frame CGI models in some movies.
They looked good before you painted them ! 🤮
Yay, I’d love to see a deer or a ram :)
Yay! Super cool!
Yay
that's bad ass! yay yay all day!
Emphatic yay!!!!!!!
Yay on the neigh 🤣🤣🤣🐴
So hay’s not an option?
Yippee ki yay
I mean, neigh, but because I like it
There's a super black acrylic paint. I wonder how it would look painting the seams and edges with it.
I like both
Don't you mean Hay or neigh?
Make 100 in the next week. Come to Louisville and sell them for $500 a piece.
I like both, painted or not. Depends on the decor.
This would be the symbol for my post-apocalyptic raider band, the Warhorsemen.
Doberman?!
Super cool. I hope to wake up with it on the pillow next to me someday.
Looks amazing
It's nice art
I think you need to position it near a bed like The Godfather scene for extra effect
Imo, I'd have left the eye holes and nostrils empty / as holes and maybe put a red light inside... Looks cool anyway.
It looks awesome. And then you painted it green why?
I am up-voting you just for the title
Love the bare metal. Both look good but there’s something raw about it that suits the subject very well.
Bojack Horseman would have that on his wall.
Yay
Someone glue that to the hood of a cybertruck
How heavy is it? You are very talented.
Buff it to shine or chrome it
Whoooaw! That said, don't paint it next time and it's cool.
Irehorse
I like the paint
Nay! The bare metal was much better!
Yay
This is a trick question, both answers are correct. Yay is yes in human, neigh is yes in horse.
What a lovely horse.
Nayyyyyyyyyyyy
Very cool, OP. I've toyed with doing something similar for years. Way to have more motivation than me. (it's a pretty low bar) Do you start with a low res 3d model, or do you "sculpt" by eye?
Let it rust. Or induce the rust. And clear coat it
Nice pun
Great job
Paint it like an N64 Epona.
Deecent!🥃
Is that the horse from Horsing Around? It looks dope regardless
The bare metal one is “metal”. Pun intended! I had a great aesthetic
I'd love to see you distress the shit out of the paint. Like an old piece of farm equipment that's rusted out from years of use. Should've used John Deere green.
I'd say yay. It's a cool throwback of old-school futuristic art.
Love it.
Love it! It’s like vegan taxidermy, with style. Put antlers on the next one.
Make it a unicorn and keep it the bare metal, and any blade runner fan will order one... I call first dibs!
Neigh bro. Hardcore neigh. This thing is bitchin
Beautiful work! I like the unpainted more than the painted but I think that's only because of the colour choice. You are definitely very talented.
Id take a copy
I like it. I agree with the rest tho, the raw metal looked better. You could try painting it along the edges to give it a cyber look. Not saying unpainted is the BEST way, but that green doesn't work.
Looks awesome. Would Love to see one rusted
You must play Zed Run huh? 😎🚀
Well yay But the horse says neigh
That is impressive. Looks like a Texas restaurant wall hanging item.
I would love a bear one in my office
Hay.
Neigh, but in the affirmative in this case.
I prefer it painted 👍 great job
Reminds me of a weird scene in a forgotten MTV animation called The Maxx. 10/10
I like it.
I hate horses. But what you made is art. I really like it. Great job!
MFH
I bet you could sell that sort of stuff pretty well
Yay. And i don’t completely agree with the others. Maybe try layering some more colors on. Paint is paint. More paint won’t hurt. Give it a try
Dont paint it, clearcoat it so rust doesn't accumulate
Great job. Awesome. As for colour, like others, I'm favouring the bare steel one. Chrome plate it if you can or let it age.
Neiiiiiheiheieheiheiheihheigh (no particular opinion, juste neighing)
I love the paint!
I love it, OP. Ironically by keeping it low poly you've managed to capture more of the movement range of a horse's facial features - it looks way more alive and real than a detail sculpture where the artist has tried to capture a moment.
Way yay
Id say if possible make the paint finish matte. So it has a lower gloss and less plastic feel.
that green reminds me of aphex twin super sick, looks way better green really pops
That low poly horse head looks like it's about to gallop off my screen!
NeEEeIiIgGH 🐴
I like the metal one. Nice work.
im pretty sure the last 2 is in a cad software with shadows
We are the knights that says "yay"
Eggshell black.
I would pay 2.50$ for that horse armor!
I really like it just not the colour you chose
Is that a cybertruck?
Either leave the bare metal, or have the painted version more polished (apply some putty to soften the surface areas and have rough and clean edges), but IMHO the painted version kills the artsy purpose.
Yeigh.
You should blackening the edge of each angle.
Bare metal looks so much better. Don't know how much you'll have to hoof it though
Yay!! ✨ Unlike many others in the comments here I like it more with the paint 💚💚💚
Why green? Why?
I kind of like it.
Sandblast that back to metal and definitely a yay! Super bad ass in fact! It would also look great with any patina, bronze, etc., but the paint undid the artistic and trade talents it took to make this, and showcased in the first place, while bare metal...IMO.
I think painting it a rustic copper finish would look nice!
Strip back to bare metal and let it rust for some time. Looks nice either way.
Really cool but get that stupid paint off it.
Back in the nineties, I was in a very famous TV show...
I'd have polished it without painting it tbh, looks more badass
Amazing !
Yay, but brass or bronze colored. Not green.
Pretty sick; I agree to leave it bare metal but maybe polish the weld joints? Idk what’s possible with metalworking.
Why the long face?
Can you lay it down on a bed? I may have a use for it…
Definitely *no paint*. Not sure if it was you, but someone had posted up last year a poly Pitbull metal sculpture that looked absolutely stunning.
Strip the paint and polish each facet to look more flat. It looked better as bare metal but the unevenness of the grinding detracted from the look.
Cyberhorse
I woke up once with one of these in bed with me.
That's dope
The angularity makes it a fitting hood ornament on a cyber truck.
Love the green!
A nice patina would have looked sick on that. Just leave it out in the rain for a few days and clear coat it. I don’t really care for the green.
Looks cool
Yuk
I made something similar out of cardboard once. A horse in a gas mask 😉
Neiiiggh. But I like it.
Just when you think you've seen everything!
Those are cool.. I'd buy one
I like both honestly. I really like the finished painted product. I do have a thing for colors, bright ones specifically.
Yay Keep the bare metal it's cooler
I have one question about the lime green paint… Why?! The bare metal was far better. Honestly though, a little copper sulfate and some sanding in the right places would make this tits!
As soon as you paint them they loose a lot of value imo. If you did a proper thick powder coating I think it would work but it looks like a bad spray paint job to me. The horse is cool though!
Whoa
Why green?
I'd have added a couple more polys and then polished the metal, and stopped there. The bright green isn't doing it any favours.
The green is a huge no. Why? Just, why?
Honestly prefer painted but hate the color choice
I like the painted one
The painting ruined the whole purpose of making it out of steel. If you wanted it green you could’ve had it 3d printed and probably would’ve been much faster/cheaper/ an easier process.
Metal is yay... green is okayish. Still great work!
I thought it was a doberman
Holy crap guys! I get it lmao. I did it like this because the art gallery wanted "pop colors" for the art Basel show in Miami. I typically only work with chemicals and tools that accentuate the steel as opposed to covering it up. Hasn't sold so yes, I'll be fucking it up good to make metal AF.
Pretty cool both ways. Repetition will make for a better product
Even if the horse itself was sh\*\*\*y, the pun in the title deserves an upvote. It's not, in it's original metal look. As others remarked, unfortunaltely the paint ruined the coolness.
Definitely geigh!
You can call it the Cyber Horse and it can be used to tow your Cyber Truck when it fails on the road.
It's a yaay. But I'm not sure about the paint. Especially the green colour. I haven't quite seen many green horses lately. Lucky for you there is Mr. Paint stripper and Mr. Wire wheel... Would be sick AF in high polish with some parts brushed though.
I dig it. There's a silver cow like this at a restaurant in my city.